We are the innovation playmaker

Italian Angels for Growth is the biggest Italian business angel network: more than 150 entrepreneurial, financial and industrial players who invest time and capital for the growth of innovative startups

Presentation

Italian Angels for Growth, or IAG, is where business angels meet the most tenacious and prepared entrepreneurs.

Italian Angels for Growth gives a guide and a methodology to its members that, independently, constitute a consortium for each investment operation, collaborating on a daily basis with the professional staff of the association

Each consortium is led by a “voluntary” partner, who invests a significant amount and acts as the leader of the investment: the Champion

The Champions follow the investment by making themselves available to the founder, but they also supervise the protection of the interests of the business angels and the quality of the transaction.

In Italy we are the Business Angel association with several partners

We invest a lot in training and updating

Each participation is proactively followed by two "Champion" members for everyone

Vision

“Imagine a future in which those who want to innovate and contribute to the prosperity of their country will be able to easily find the right capital”

Mission

“Helping our members to invest in the best technological startups that are most interesting and attentive to the quality of collective life”

Numbers

A continuous growth, year by year

We continue to grow to better support innovation and access to capital.

Association

IAG is a non-profit organization founded in 2007 by nine founding business angels. Inspired by the US model, they also wanted to bring an investment formula to Italy that could involve private capital by putting them at the service of innovative startups with method and professionalism.

Let’s leave the words of our partner co-founder Francesco Marini Clarelli, collected in this video, the story of those first moments.

The startups to be presented to the members are evaluated by a special screening committee, made up of seven sector experts, who base their evaluation on five key attributes

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04Structure

The team of the association , led by the managing director Giacomo Valentini, consists of an investment manager and an investment analyst and an office manager, takes care of every day of different activities, from the process of screening to training, from the management of meetings with startups to the support of members for the success of their investments

04Sector groups

Members can share their skills to support an assessment that benefits everyone. Thanks to the number of members we can avail ourselves of an important pool of experts now organized in four groups of the sector

01Territorial groups

The number of members present throughout Italy and abroad allows the creation of local groups for meetings, training and development of relationships with the local ecosystem actors. The first territorial group, started in 2017, is that of Emilia-Romagna